It doesn’t matter what holiday you celebrate in December—Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or none at all. What matters is that you join your fellow Legends for our annual holiday luncheon. This year, it’s December 9 at our new (well, new-ish) home at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Rancho Cordova. Doors open at 12 noon, with lunch served at more-or-less 12:30 p.m.

The 2026 edition of our holiday luncheon will be extra-special, as we’ll be awarding our first of what we hope will be an annual tradition, the Jim Drennan Memorial Scholarship. This year’s recipient is Sac State student Ariel Airada. Jim was, of course, the long-time president of VBL who made a generous gift to us in his will, making the scholarship possible. Ariel plans to use the $1,000 to purchase a camera. She hopes someday to become a film director.

Many of us have vivid memories of working in broadcast news during the holiday season. If that includes you, then come to the December 9 meeting prepared to share those stories. We plan to pass around the mic, offering everyone the chance to recall a holiday memory in the news biz, whether it be wild times at the station Christmas bash, or a heartwarming charity fundraiser, or “something completely different.” If you do plan to share a memory, let Allen know when you phone or email your RSVP. Once we have a rough idea as to how many of you plan to participate, we’ll have a better idea as to how much time to allocate.